Karachi: Sindh Minister for Human Settlements and Special Development Ghulam Murtaza Baloch has said that parents, teachers and other stakeholders of the society must work together to curb the growing drug use among the young generation and raise awareness on the dangers of drug use.
There is also an urgent need for a large-scale campaign to create awareness on the issue .
He said this while visiting a government hospital in Memon Goth on Wednesday.
On this occasion, it was also decided to rehabilitate the closed building for drug and psychiatric patients in the hospital and it was also agreed to provide all treatment facilities to the patients.
Murtaza Baloch assured the hospital management that all resources would be utilized to solve their problems.
The Provincial Minister was accompanied by Member National Assembly Agha Rafiullah, Dr. Khalil Ahmed Sheikh, Dr. Saleh Muhammad Dipper, Khalil Wadilo, Ali Bakhsh Khaskheli, Saleem J. Memon, Jam Kausar and others.
Ghulam Murtaza Baloch said that the number of psychiatric patients was also increasing due to drug use and other social problems. These patients would be provided better treatment facilities. He said that the government of Sindh was committed to provide better care health facilities and efforts were being made to provide maximum and best medical treatment to the people of the province.
He said that due to the outbreak of Coronavirus, more attention needed to be paid to the health sector and in order to prevent the spread of the disease, social distancing needed to be maintained.
“The young generation is an asset to any nation and we need to protect the young generation from drugs and engage their mental and physical abilities towards constructive activities,” he concluded.
